Design and Synthesis of “Chloropicolinate Amides and Urea Derivatives” as Novel Inhibitors for Mycobacterium tuberculosis

A series of 30 novel diamino phenyl chloropicolinate fettered carboxamides, urea, and thiourea derivatives were synthesized by coupling of methyl 4-amino-6-(2-aminophenyl)-3-
chloropyridine-2-carboxylate with different acid chlorides, urea,
and thiourea moieties, respectively. All of these compounds were characterized by 1 H and 13C nuclear magnetic resonance
spectroscopy, CHN analysis, and high-resolution mass spectra
for confirmation of the structures. Two compounds were also
characterized by single-crystal X-ray diffraction analysis to confirm the structures obtained by spectral analysis. All these 30
compounds were tested for their in vitro antimycobacterial activity using the microplate alamar blue assay method against
Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Five compounds have shown good minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC) values with low
cytotoxicity when compared with the reference drugs. Moreover, some of the compounds have high MIC values compared with
isoniazid, rifampicin, and so forth and also had shown good reign in the spread of bacteria by the nutrient starvation model. These antimycobacterial activity results have shown a good correlation with molecular docking model analysis with the inhibitors MurB by exhibiting strong interactions. Some of these compounds could be promising candidates against M. tuberculosis for future preclinical agent drug development